Arun Gupta's Weblog

Saturday May 19, 2012

This is second year of the conference and they've grown >50% from
last year.
This is the only major Java conference in Ukraine and there is a
huge demand for Java speakers in this region. Even though the
conference started with a focus on enterprise Java but has
diversified into broader Java ecosystem covering Play, Gradle,
Hazelcast, Scala, Hadoop, Cassandra, and other topics.

I gave a talk on Java EE 7: Developing for the Cloud to about 400+
developers. I used the newly refreshed slide deck with tons of code
samples from different technologies such as JAX-RS
2.0, JPA
2.1, and Bean
Validation 1.1. The slide deck is available.

I had the opportunity to spend some time with Yakov Fain, a
Java Champion, who gave two day-long workshops on Java EE 6
and JavaScript. I also spent some time with Ruslan, CEO of Jelastic and thanked them for
their continued support of GlassFish. The local JUG is not active
but I learned about Club
of Anonymous Developers where geeks meet couple of times a
month to talk about different technologies. If you live in the local
region, then consider joining this group and learn/share your
experience.

Thank you Nikolai and Alexsey for taking the lead on running a Java
conference in Ukraine. I hope to be back next year!